624 CONCLUSION
subjectively conditioned judgment I am myself so
profoundly convinced of this homogeneity of the human
psyche that I have actually embraced it in the concept of
the collective unconscious, as a universal and homogeneous
substratum whose homogeneity extends even into a world-
wide identity or similarity of myths and fairy-tales; so
that a negro of the Southern States of America dreams
in the motives of Grecian mythology, and a Swiss grocer's
apprentice repeats in his psychosis, the vision of an
Egyptian Gnostic,
From this fundamental uniformity, however, an equally
great dissimilarity of the conscious psyche stands out in
all the bolder relief, What immeasurable distances lie
between the consciousness of a primitive, a Thcmistoclean
Athenian, and a modern European! What a difference
between the consciousness of the learaecl professor and
that of his spouse 11 What, in any case, would our world
of to-day be like if there existed a uniformity of con-
sciousness? No, the notion of a uniformity of the
conscious psyche is an academic chimera, doubtless
simplifying the task of a University lecturer when facing
his pupils, but shrinking to nothing in the face of reality.
Quite apart from the diversity of the individual whose
innermost nature is sundered from his neighbour by stellar
distances, the types, as classes of individuals, are them-
selves to a very large extent different pne from another,
and to the existence of types the diversities of general
conceptions must be ascribed-
In order to discover the uniformity of the human
psyche I must descend into the very foundations of
consciousness. Only there do I find wherein all are alike.
When I found a theory upon that which connects all, I
explain the psyche from what is its foundation and origin,
But, in so doing, my explanation entirely omit* that factor
which consists in its historical or individual differentiation.